Simon Rich is outrageously, lavishly gifted
Caitlin Moran How fabulously funny
Lauren Laverne Hilarious. Open this book anywhere, begin reading, and you will laugh
Jon Stewart The wittiest American humourist of his generation
Guardian
This year's giggliest read
Observer magazine
A remarkably funny writer, likely to make you laugh harder than any other ... Read more... there's no funnier writer working today
Shortlist
Rich has a wonderful way of making a familiar situation strange and then presenting it in deceptively simple language, within a perfectly lucid, concise structure ... Genius ... He is a Thurber, even a Wodehouse, for today. Who could ask for more? You can give his books to people and just watch them laugh. Only after you've snorted through them yourself, though
David Sexton
Evening Standard
Simon Rich is very much laugh-out-loud funny. He can conjure authentic, from-the-abdomen laughter on almost every page. He stacks surrealism on top of slick satire on top of pure childish silliness in such a brilliant and condensed way, there are sometimes three laugh-out-loud moments within the same paragraph ... He is exactly the right kind of writer for the internet: funny, high-concept, accessible, short, sharable, a James Thurber for the Twitter age
Matt Haig
Guardian
Brilliant ... Slightly nerdy and very sharp
William Leith
Evening Standard
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